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title: And the _Patu-paiarehe_ men appear often to have made themselves agr… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the _Patu-paiarehe_ men appear often to have made themselves agreeable to the _wahine_ Maori, for stories are told of women being taken as wives by the fairy chiefs, and of girls from the Maori villages wandering away into the woods to meet their fairy lovers. Who acts: Patu paiarehe, fairy chie
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 62

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And the \_Patu-paiarehe\_ men appear often to have made themselves agreeable to the \_wahine\_ Maori, for stories are told of women being taken as wives by the fairy chiefs, and of girls from the Maori villages wandering away into the woods to meet their fairy lovers.

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**Who acts:** Patu paiarehe, fairy chiefs, Maori villages · **What happens:** appear, make, tell, take, wonder away, meet · **To what, where:** men, stories, woods, fairy lovers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Little People of the Mist.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Patu paiarehe, fairy chiefs, Maori villages), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73766:14:62
# text = And the _Patu-paiarehe_ men appear often to have made themselves agreeable to the _wahine_ Maori, for stories are told of women being taken as wives by the fairy chiefs, and of girls from the Maori villages wandering away into the woods to meet their fairy lovers.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Patu	Patu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	paiarehe	paiarehe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	wahine	wahine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Maori	maori	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
29	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	ccomp	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	Maori	maori	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
45	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	44	acl	_	_
46	away	away	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	into	into	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	advcl	_	_
52	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | the Patu paiarehe and men |  |  |  |  | of girls from the Maori villages; often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive · perfect | the Patu paiarehe and men *not said here* | men *= man* |  |  |  | Maori *obl*; agreeable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | stories |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **take** | gerund · passive | the fairy chiefs |  |  |  |  | of women; as wives | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent of woman=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **wonder away** *speech: ask* | gerund | the Maori villages *not said here* |  |  | the woods |  | away *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the Maori villages *not said here* | stories's fairy lovers |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Co-Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Project Gutenberg book 73766 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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